LekhoriLekhoriA character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
"$" is the symbol for dollars in the US and some other countries.
A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing.
The lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. .
To symbolize.
[…] They told me that the Holy Rood had lean'd / And bow'd above me; […] / [I]f it bow'd, whether it symbol'd ruin / Or glory, who shall tell?
From French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, to...
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